Sentence examples for spurn that from inspiring English sources

The country came to spurn that idea in the early twentieth century, and it largely disappeared.

They both realize that in their professional lives proximity to power is everything, and to spurn that system openly is to give up everything.

It might cast its collective mind back to 2005 and the rash decision to spurn that council-estate alumnus David Davis.

And to spurn that advice is to threaten our national security and the therefore to make life that bit more dangerous for the 60 million British people we purport to represent.

It turned out that it wasn't the coach's gamble that defined the match, but the captain's, the one Robshaw took when he decided to spurn that shot at goal.

There I turn back into a woman, the most beautiful Tahitian woman of them all, and spurn that ugly French painter crawling in the sand in favor of a calm lover who will tend me, feed me fresh fish in coconut milk, and not get me pregnant.

Rye spurns that recommendation.

She said she spurned that, too.

But Mr. Cardenas spurned that offer too.

Naomi makes a show of spurning that role, but who is she kidding?

While the rest of the pack feeds on itself in Iowa, which votes Tuesday, Mr. Huntsman has spurned that state.